About the Conference

Platform: The Cloud Foundry Conference

An event for developers and cloud operators that are using the industry's leading Open Source Platform-as-a-Service: Cloud Foundry. Join core contributors to the project and real world users for two days to discuss deep technical topics, engineering roadmap, community ecosystem and operational best practices.

The Platform event is designed for community interaction and discussion. With community led case study sessions and a dedicated un-conference to organize attendee voted session topics, this conference is all about you, the Cloud Foundry developer or operator. Join with other dedicated community members to share information, exchange ideas and influence the future direction of Open Source Platform-as-a-Service.

Agenda

James Watters
Head of Product, Marketing, and Ecosystem for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal

James kicks off the inaugural Platform Conference by welcoming the attendees and talking about the strategy and plans for Cloud Foundry, the world's most powerful enterprise PaaS.

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

From Zero to Factory
Jonathan Murray

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From Zero to Factory: Revolutionizing 'Time-to-Value' Through the Industrialization of Enterprise IT

Jonathan Murray
EVP and Chief Technology Office, Warner Music Group

'Time-to-Value' is now the career defining metric for enterprise CIOs. The velocity of IT capability delivery must match the rapid pace at which modern business cycles and consumer demand patterns change. Jonathan Murray will discuss a radical approach to the industrialization of enterprise IT and the practical aspects of implementing an enterprise software factory leveraging new cloud based Platform as a Service technologies.

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Continuous Delivery
with Cloud Foundry
Andrew Crump

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Continuous Delivery with Cloud Foundry

Andrew Crump
CTO, CloudCredo

Cloud Foundry dramatically simplifies the work necessary to build deployment pipelines for continuous delivery. In this talk we'll look at the benefits of building deployment pipelines with Cloud Foundry, some anti-patterns to watch out for, and how you can practice continuous delivery when making changes to the infrastructure code of Cloud Foundry itself. In this session we will describe how we used Cloud Foundry to serve hundreds of transactions a seconds in prime time TV while continuously delivering improvements to the application and infrastructure code.

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Future of PaaS and Cloud Services at Swisscom
Torsten Boettjer

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Future of PaaS and Cloud Services at Swisscom

Torsten Boettjer
VP of Strategy and Innovation, Swisscom

Cloud Computing and Platform as a Service (PaaS) often mean different things to different people. For Swisscom, Cloud Computing has the potential to revolutionize they way telco or network services are delivered. With PaaS, quickly evolving not only as a means to develop applications -- but as the means to deploy them, Cloud Foundry is an enabler for a new operations model.

Break

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Go Within Cloud Foundry
Mike Gehard

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Go Within Cloud Foundry

Mike Gehard
Senior Software Engineer, Pivotal Labs

Go is an exciting new open source language that started at Google. It takes the lessons learned from previous programming languages, such as C, C++ and Java, and packages it up into an effective tool for solving today's software problems on today's infrastructure platforms.

This talk will start with a brief history of Go and outline what makes Go so appealing as a software tool. We will then dive into a couple of projects within Cloud Foundry that are successfully leveraging Go in very different ways to get things done with surprising results.

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Cloud Foundry
at NTT Group
Yudai Iwasaki

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Cloud Foundry at NTT Group

Yudai Iwasaki
Lead Engineer, NTT

We have been running a commercial public PaaS named Cloudn PaaS, which is based on Cloud Foundry, since April 2013. This session will show you how we developed our service using Cloud Foundry and the benefits from adopting it as the base system. This session will also show you how Cloud Foundry's extensible design helps us to connect our other functionalities such as a managed DBMS service and authentication system, and how we manage our Cloud Foundry cluster.

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Cloud Foundry 101
Matthew Kocher

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Cloud Foundry 101

Matthew Kocher
Director of Engineering, Cloud Foundry at Pivotal

We're excited that the inaugural Platform conference has attracted such a diverse group of technologists from across our industry, both veterans of the Cloud Foundry community and those just looking to learn what CF has to offer. The purpose of this brief presentation is to help frame our discussion for the next few days, as we discuss:

What is CF?

What is its value proposition to enterprises and developers alike?

What is the CF ecosystem, and why is it important?

How are people using CF today?

Where is CF headed in the future?

5:00 PM - 6:20 PM

Stackato and Cloud Foundry
(Lightning Talk)
Jeff Hobbs

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Stackato and Cloud Foundry (Lightning Talk)

Jeff Hobbs
CTO & VP of Engineering, ActiveState

5:00 PM - 6:20 PM

New Tools for a New Era
(Lightning Talk)
Ismael Ghalimi

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New Tools for a New Era (Lightning Talk)

Ismael Ghalimi
CEO, STOIC

The traditional office productivity suite was built to let PC users create small documents for printing purposes. In the era of cloud computing, mobile users need a new set of tools that will help them curate big data for decision making and automation. STOIC is leveraging the Cloud Foundry platform to create these tools.

To accomplish high degrees of resiliency & scale and minimize latency, it is required to deploy Cloud Foundry across multiple geographically distributed data centers. That implies a number of architectural considerations, such as:

How to expose a single point of entry for deploying an application into such a globally distributed environment

How to allow the developer to explicitly select a data center for deploying an app

How to make it as easy as possible for the developer to expose an app via a single URL, even if it's deployed in more than one data center

How to make it possible to bind services residing in any of the data centers to apps potentially running in a different data center

How to accomplish the maximum degree of independence of each of the data centers, so that the Cloud Foundry installations in the remaining data centers continue to be available, even if many other data centers go down

And many more...

This session is going to discuss architectural considerations for running Cloud Foundry across multiple sites and propose an architecture -- with the objective of soliciting feedback from the broader Cloud Foundry community towards further refinement.

Pivotal has chosen to work with AppDirect to power their add-on marketplace at the Cloud Foundry powered public service, run.pivotal.io. The marketplace offers third-party services and tools that help with the building process. Beyond the ability to discover and purchase these services, the add-on marketplace enables end-uers to also bind these services directly to the apps they are building through run.pivotal.io. Learn about the value behind the marketplace, what services are offered, and how to get involved in this distribution opportunity.

5:00 PM - 6:20 PM

MoPaaS Introduction
(Lightning Talk)
Wei-Min Lu

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MoPaaS Introduction (Lightning Talk)

Wei-Min Lu
Founder & CEO, Anchora

MoPaaS is a public cloud mobile application platform provided by Anchora. Based on innovative information chain management technology and the leading open source cloud-computing PaaS solution, Cloud Foundry, with mobile-app and data-service enhancements, MoPaaS provides an intelligent, agile, open, and secure cloud-computing application platform to mobile application developers and service providers, offering a simple way of building, deploying, scaling, and managing web and mobile applications. Anchora is a leading provider of cloud computing PaaS solutions and services in China. In particular, Anchora provides the next generation public cloud platform as a service (PaaS): MoPaaS to mobile application developers and service providers. It automates management of the whole application lifecycle, including development, deployment, scaling, and operation. It provides cloud service infrastructure that enables the application developers to focus on their application code and innovation, without worrying about the backend IT tasks.

This lightning talk covers the key operational metrics we monitor to prevent problems and keep Cloud Foundry running smoothly. Sharing our notes with the community, we hope to validate our approach, learn about other data points, and spark efforts to include additional monitoring hooks in future releases.

5:00 PM - 6:20 PM

Java Buildpack
(Lightning Talk)
Ben Hale

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Java Buildpack: Designed for Extension (Lightning Talk)

Ben Hale
Cloud Foundry Java Experience Engineer, Pivotal

Whether it is the automatic choice of containers or the zero-touch configuration and usage of services, the Java Buildpack aims to remove the hassle of running Java applications on Cloud Foundry. There are times, however, when an application needs a feature that the buildpack does not yet provide. This talk will start by showing how to use and configure the Java buildpack and finish by showing how to extend the buildpack to ensure that Cloud Foundry is the best place to run your application.

6:20 PM - 6:30 PM

Pivotal Update
Paul Maritz

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Pivotal Update

Paul Maritz
CEO, Pivotal

Platform Welcome Reception sponsored by Skytap

Monday, September 9

Breakfast Starts at 8:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

Welcome from IBM
Angel Diaz

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Welcome from IBM

Angel Diaz
Vice President, IBM Standards and Cloud Labs, IBM

Today's business leaders face a significant challenge: to engage their customers in new, innovative ways, and to deliver continuously enhanced products, with more function, faster than their competition. Savvy business leaders recognize these challenges present an opportunity. However, to fully realize that opportunity, they need to break beyond the barriers of yesterday's closed systems. IBM's Dr. Angel Diaz will talk about how an open cloud architecture, based on Cloud Foundry, can help enterprises take full advantage of this opportunity.

James Watters hosts a panel conversation with key enterprise technologists from GE, Intel and Warner Music to discuss their perspectives on why Cloud Foundry was chosen as the basis for their internal clouds. The panelists will discuss the key technical and business motivators for PaaS and their views about the future of internal cloud services for large companies.

Break

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM

Pivotal HD as a Cloud Foundry Service
Ashwin Kumar

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Pivotal HD as a Cloud Foundry Service

Ashwin Kumar
Principal Software Engineer, Pivotal

PivotalHD is the world's fastest Hadoop distribution, leveraging the mature SQL query engine known as HAWQ. By integrating PivotalHD as a Cloud Foundry service, consumers of the open and extensible PaaS will be able to develop applications exploiting the complex analytics capabilities of Hadoop, including MapReduce, HBase, HAWQ, and more. This talk will cover the deployment of PivotalHD as a BOSH release, as well as the service broker that exposes PivotalHD to the Cloud Foundry PaaS.

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM

Extending Cloud Foundry
to .NET
Jared Wray

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Extending Cloud Foundry to .NET

Jared Wray
Founder & CTO, Tier 3

Adding an entirely new platform to the Cloud Foundry ecosystem is a daunting development challenge. This session will dive into how support for .NET was added to Cloud Foundry with Iron Foundry, an open source project. In particular, support for Cloud Foundry V2 will be discussed.

At VMworld in August 2013, VMware and Pivotal announced and demoed the jointly developed Pivotal CF product for vSphere and vCloud Hybrid Service. In this talk, Killian will give an overview of the product and outline future plans for Cloud Foundry at VMware.

11:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Operating Cloud Foundry
with BOSH
Dr. Nic Williams

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Operating Cloud Foundry with BOSH

Dr. Nic Williams
CEO, Stark & Wayne

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Cloud Foundry at Rakuten
(Lightning Talk)
Yohei Sasaki

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Cloud Foundry at Rakuten (Lightning Talk)

Yohei Sasaki
Lead Architect, Rakuten

We have managed Cloud Foundry v1 clusters for over a year in our production systems. We will show you how we have improved Cloud Foundry in our private infrastructure, including best practices for managing Cloud Foundry in a large scale internet company.

There is no doubt, continuous integration has improved software quality significantly. By automating test execution after changing code, tests are run immediately and alerts raised in case something has broken.

However, the tool chain is often not fully integrated, yet. In case a build fails, it is still up to the dev team to find and fix the cause of failure.

Leaving this crucial part of the dev chain without automation, a developer could still simply ignore results of the CI process and deploy untested code to a production system.

The logical next step is obvious. Only successfully tested code may be deployed. Automated or even enforced. Continuous deployment is about achieving this goal and fully integrating CI with your deployment process.

In this talk, we will learn how to build a continuos deployment toolchain using any Cloud Foundry instance such as cloudfoundry.com or anynines.com together with Github and Travis CI.

Write your code, push it to Github, wait for Travis CI to successfully run tests and your app will be deployed automagically.

Yiqun Ding
Researcher, Industrial Technology Research Institute of Zhejiang University

In this presentation, Yiqun will share how a group of 10+ graduate students started their research of Cloud Foundry in 2011 and what they have achieved so far. For example, they developed the BOSH Cloud Stack CPI. Cloud Stack is one of the most popular commercial Open Source IaaS platforms. With this CPI, BOSH can automatically deploy Cloud Foundry on Cloud Stack. They also designed and implemented a lightweight MOM system (called NATS_Cluster) which is based on the existing NATS (v0.4.28 and 0.5 beta). Compared to the single-node Version of NATS (v0.4.28), NATS_Cluster provides better availability. Compared to Cluster Version NATS (v0.5 beta), their NATS_Cluster provides better scalability which means dynamic expansion of the NATS Server cluster.

11:45 AM - 12:30 PM

Jumpstart Your Cloud Project
(Lightning Talk)
Ed Elze

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Jumpstart Your Cloud Project with IBM jStart® (Lightning Talk)

Ed Elze
Program Director, jStart Team, IBM

jStart's mission is to serve as the Voice of the Customer around emerging technology initiatives. It does this by engaging directly with customers, using PoCs to iterate on both the technology and the business value. For the participants, it's an opportunity to explore the application of cloud for their organization with minimal risk and influence IBM's direction on its next generation cloud platform which is based on Cloud Foundry (Project BlueMix).

Speakers

Paul Maritz

Paul Maritz
CEO, Pivotal

Pivotal Chief Executive Officer Paul Maritz formed Pivotal in 2013, having previously served as Chief Strategist of EMC and CEO of VMware. During his tenure at VMware, he led transformation of the company from a technology leader in virtualization to a category leader in cloud computing. Maritz remains a member of VMware’s board of directors.

Prior to joining VMware, Maritz was President of the Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division at EMC after the company’s February 2008 acquisition of Pi, where he was the founder and CEO. Before founding Pi, Maritz spent 14 years working at Microsoft, where he served as a member of the five-person Executive Committee that managed the overall company, and was responsible for the product development and marketing of the Windows Client.

Rob Mee

Rob Mee
SVP, Cloud Application Fabric & Pivotal Labs, Pivotal

Rob Mee is the vice president of Cloud Application Platform Group and Pivotal Labs at Pivotal. Prior to Pivotal, Mee co-founded Pivotal Labs in 1989 and served as CEO for 24 years, growing the company into a major provider of software development services for companies ranging from seed-stage startups to enterprise-grade companies. Mee oversaw Pivotal Labs’ acquisition by EMC Corporation in March 2012, and continues to lead and guide the vision for Pivotal Labs at Pivotal.

James Watters

James Watters
Head of Product, Marketing, and Ecosystem for Cloud Foundry at Pivotal

James is the head of Product for Cloud Foundry where he oversees product development and strategy. He is also responsible for the marketing, developer relations and ecosystem development functions of the group.

Paul Arnautoff

Paul Arnautoff
Director of Business Development, AppDirect

Paul Arnautoff is the Director of Business Development at AppDirect, the leading Cloud Service Marketplace and Management Platform. Previously, Paul led AppDirect's Developer Program which has produced API integrations for billing and provisioning to over 150 of the leading cloud applications online, allowing their products to be distributed through various app marketplaces worldwide. Most recently, he has led integrations with Pivotal Cloud Foundry and OpenStack to make it easier for consumers of open platforms to discover and purchase third-party services and add-ons.

Paul also sits on the Board of Directors at the Small Business Web, a trade association of 200 cloud software providers dedicated to making cloud software accessible to small businesses.

He has a key lead role in building IBM's next-gen cloud technology, which focuses on the development, deployment and operations of "born-on-the-cloud" applications, based on CloudFoundry.

Additionally, he is the lead architect for IBM’s Cloud Computing Reference Architecture, being the blueprint for all clouds implemented by IBM.

Before that, Michael led the implementation of clouds for many customers around the globe. He took on this role after driving the development of one of IBM's key cloud products.

Michael is a Master Inventor, has 19 patents granted, published numerous articles and is a frequent speaker at conferences.

Lucas Carlson

Lucas Carlson
VP of Cloud Evangelism, Savvis

Lucas Carlson founded AppFog, a PaaS company that leveraged Cloud Foundry and was acquired by CenturyLink. Lucas has been a professional developer for 10 years and specializes in Ruby on Rails development. Lucas has authored Programming for PaaS and the Ruby Cookbook, and has written half a dozen libraries in various program­ming languages and contributed to many others, including Rails and RedCloth. He maintains a personal website at rufy.com.

Andrew Crump

Andrew Crump
CTO, CloudCredo

Andrew Crump is the CTO of CloudCredo. Andrew was an early adopter of Cloud Foundry and is well known within the Opscode Chef community for his development of open source tooling for infrastructure-as-code. Prior to his involvement in CloudCredo, Andrew led the implementation of development tooling for an FTSE-100 company.

Angel Diaz

Angel Diaz
Vice President, IBM Standards and Cloud Labs, IBM

Dr. Angel Luis Diaz is Vice President of IBM Standards and Cloud Labs. He has responsibility for driving the strategy and management of IBM's standards and open source programs as well as high performance Cloud computing initiatives.

As part of his responsibilities, he manages a global community working across international organizations, consortia and partners to foster development of the next generation of interoperability standards, policies and practices critical to IBM and the industry. Current focus areas include establishing interoperability for Smarter Planet, Cloud, Mobil, Social and Analytics – much like we did in the early day of the internet.

Additionally, he is also leading IBM's activities around establishing open source as the baseline for cloud computing design, development and deployment. To this end, Angel is fostering a new model of standards development supporting several of IBM’s growth initiatives. This model grounds open source and standards on practical applications of technology. His Cloud Lab activities allows him to collaborate with IBM’s clients and partners on enterprise infrastructure, application architecture and workload optimization. This partnership validates early integration of new initiatives, such a Cloud Foundry and Open Stack, with IBM's technologies and real world use cases.

Since joining IBM in 1981, Ed has worked with clients who recognize the value of adopting new technologies. Initially working within the IBM mainframe environment, he led the initial implementations of IBM's automated storage technologies and Advanced Function Printing technologies across a number of west coast-based enterprises. As client interest shifted towards a distributed computing model, he led the initial deployments where client/server integration with mainframes was a key requirement. As interest shifted to the Web, he joined IBM's jStart Team to work with clients who sought first mover advantage by exploring and deploying Web-based technologies. Currently, as Program Director of IBM's jStart Team, he leads a team of consultants, architects, and developers who partner with clients on emerging technology projects with the objective of validating the business value and gathering requirements to refine the prospective technologies prior to commercialization. Over the years, this model has been applied to initiate IBM's efforts in Java, XML, Web services, mashups, Big Data, and text analytics. The jStart team is currently focused on IBM's emerging cloud initiative.

Julian Fischer

Julian Fischer
Head of Anynines and CEO of Avarteq GmbH

As a fan of lean methodologies such as Kanban and the lean startup movement, his main focus is developing scalable and distributed hosting architectures – such as anynines.com and enterpriserails.com.

He is a self-confessed Ruby, hosting and cloud enthusiast. With his background in installation automation with Opscode Chef, setting up and running OpenStack environments and his love affair with Ruby, CloudFoundry was just a perfect match.

Aiming to establish and distribute Cloud Foundry in Europe, a public Cloud Foundry instance has been brought to life with Anynines.

Having already run Cloud Foundry on VMWare as well as on OpenStack, Anynines now also provides private installations with SLAs.

Chetan is the Director of Strategic Partnerships and solutions architecture at GE Software & Analytics at their San Ramon, CA office. He received his B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) - BHU. He also has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, London School of Economics and HEC (Paris). A fanatic at simplification and automation, Chetan brings more than 20 years of software product development experience from diverse technology companies like Cisco Systems, Fujitsu Network Communications and Calypso Technology. He is also an enthusiast in applying functional programming techniques using Scala and Python, to large scale financial risk modeling for options and other derivatives. At GE, Chetan's team is responsible for strategic partnerships and for solutions architecture across all industry verticals like Oil & Gas, Digital Energy, Aviation etc. He is currently based in Cupertino, CA.

Mark Geene

Mark Geene
CEO & Co-Founder, Cloud Elements

Mark Geene is the CEO/Co-founder of Cloud Elements, a company that accelerates the development of cloud computing applications by combining open cloud platforms with reusable integrations (Elements) and cloud-optimized application development services. Prior to founding Cloud Elements, Mark was the CEO of InfoNow, a company that he transformed into two industry-leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, Channelinsight and Locationinsight.

Mark has more than 20 years of experience in sales, consulting and product management including executive positions at IBM and Oracle, and senior executive positions at Tenfold Corporation and Dorado Software. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Software Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Mike Gehard

Mike Gehard
Senior Software Engineer, Pivotal Labs

Mike is a senior software engineer at Pivotal Labs in Boulder, Colorado. He has recently made the switch to Go, from Ruby, as a primary language and couldn't be happier. His software career stretches back 15 years and includes stints as a teacher, a consultant, a product engineer and working in languages he'd rather forget.

Ben Hale

Ben Hale
Cloud Foundry Java Experience Engineer, Pivotal

Ben Hale leads Pivotal's efforts to constantly improve the Java experience on Cloud Foundry. Recently he has been working on the Cloud Foundry Java Buildpack with an eye to making it the best place to run Java applications, in the Cloud or otherwise.

Prior to working on Cloud Foundry, Ben worked on large-scale middleware management tools, tc Server, dm Server (OSGi), and Spring. If you go back far enough, he even worked on a network management and monitoring application, but will deny it when asked.

Jeff Hobbs

Jeff Hobbs
CTO & VP of Engineering, ActiveState

Jeff oversees development of all ActiveState products including the strategy of integrating our products for an end-to-end desktop to cloud experience.

Jeff's current obsession is making Stackato the best private PaaS platform for developers: using any language, any infrastructure, and leveraging open source - so applications deploy and scale in any cloud. Jeff is a contributing author for Perl and Python extensions, is a member of the Tcl Core Team, is co-author of “Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk”, and has been a speaker at Cloud Expo, OSCON, the Tcl Annual Conference, and others.

Yudai Iwasaki

Yudai Iwasaki
Lead Engineer, NTT

Yudai Iwasaki is a research engineer at NTT Laboratory Software Innovation Center. He is a core member of the development team of Cloudn PaaS, which is a public PaaS solution provided by NTT Communications, and is leading the development of their deployment system for Cloud Foundry. He is also the leader of community relationships at NTT and is a member of the Japan Cloud Foundry Group, in which capacity he gives lectures on the structure of Cloud Foundry for Japanese Cloud Foundry developers. He is a developer of Nise BOSH, which is a light weight BOSH emulator.

Vineet Joshi

Vineet Joshi
Co-Founder/CTO, Cloud Elements

Vineet Joshi the Co-founder and CTO of Cloud Elements, a company that accelerates the development of cloud computing applications by combining open cloud platforms with reusable integrations (Elements) and cloud-optimized application development services.

Vineet has 20+ years experience in technology, in leadership and engineering roles at companies including Thomson Reuters and Vignette. Vineet is listed as an inventor on multiple patents and holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington.

Daniel Krook is a Senior Certified IT Specialist on the Advanced Cloud Solutions team at IBM. He manages the OpenStack environment that runs IBM's internal Cloud Foundry deployments.

Ashwin Kumar

Ashwin Kumar
Principal Software Engineer, Pivotal

Ashwin Kumar is an engineering lead at Pivotal, driving the integration of PivotalHD as a Cloud Foundry service, for the upcoming PivotalCF release. As a Greenplum veteran, Ashwin has contributed to many parts of the core MPP database technology in Greenplum Database and HAWQ, spanning cluster management, resource scheduling, metadata handling, transaction management, and upgrade.

Wei-Min Lu

Wei-Min Lu
Founder & CEO, Anchora

Wei-Min Lu is the founder and CEO of Anchora, which builds an intelligent open cloud PaaS solution that enables both a public cloud platform service MoPaaS with extensions for mobile and data applications and a dedicated PaaS cloud platform solution that facilitates enterprise infrastructure and application consolidation and cloud platform portability. Dr. Lu has over 15 year experiences in product development and marketing. Before he founded Anchora in 2008, he served in key engineering and management positions at IBM and NASA-JPL etc. He has solid background in cloud computing, cybernetics, machine learning, information retrieval, and storage technologies. He received the Ph.D. degree (EE/Math) from CalTech and the B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University, China.

Dave McCrory

Dave McCrory
Senior Vice President of Engineering, Warner Music Group

Dave McCrory is the Senior Vice President of Engineering for Warner Music Group, where he is building a next generation enterprise PaaS. Dave has coined the term "Data Gravity", which he recognized through extensive research over the past several years. He has presented at many conferences, including Structure, Cloud Connect, Gluecon, Interop Big Data, VMworld US/Europe, RubyConf, and RailsConf. Dave is also co-author of the book titled "Advanced Server Virtualization", and holds 9 granted Patents. He also co-founded 2 startups, Surgient Inc. and Hyper9, where he was Chief Scientist/CTO.

Killian joined the Cloud Foundry team at VMware in April 2010, a year before the project went public. While running Product Management for Cloud Foundry, Killian worked with the team to launch and run the open source project and public PaaS, plan and execute engineering and marketing efforts, and drive the recently announced commercial product. He continues to work at VMware on Cloud Foundry and vCloud Hybrid Service. Previously, he worked in the CTO team at Credit Suisse and in engineering and management at several startups.

Jonathan Murray

Jonathan Murray
EVP and Chief Technology Officer, Warner Music Group

EVP & Chief Technology Officer at Warner Music Group. Responsible for global technology strategy, end-to-end IT Service delivery and the design and delivery of a next generation - cloud based - service platform to meet the needs of our employees, artists, fans and business partners.

Yohei Sasaki

Yohei Sasaki
Lead Architect, Rakuten

Yohei Sasaki is a software engineer and worked on development of international e-commerce platform. Now he is a technical lead of DevOps for Rakuten's Platform as a Service. He is also one of a member of CloudFoundry Japan community. About Rakuten, Inc. Rakuten Group is one of the world's leading Internet service companies, providing a variety of consumer- and business-focused services including e-commerce, eBooks & eReading, travel, banking and so on. Rakuten Group is expanding globally and currently has operations throughout Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania.

Catherine Spence

Catherine Spence
Enterprise Architect, IT, Intel

Catherine Spence is an Enterprise Architect and PaaS Lead for Intel IT’s Cloud Computing program. In addition, she runs the technical arm of the Open Data Center Alliance, an industry consortium of over 300 companies, representing over a billion US dollars in IT spend. Catherine has published a number of papers on Cloud Computing and has won an industry EA award for Architectural Excellence. At Intel since 1996, she has also served as Computing Director, Consulting Practice Manager and Senior Software Engineer. Catherine holds degrees in Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering from Trinity College and Harvard University.

Dr. Nic Williams

Dr. Nic Williams
CEO, Stark & Wayne

Dr Nic, and the team at Stark & Wayne, are some of the most prolific contributors to Cloud Foundry, BOSH and the huge ecosystem upon it. He has also authored many of the well-used tools used by Platform Ops to deploy and maintain their Cloud Foundry installations; such as inception-server, bosh-bootstrap and bosh-cloudfoundry.

Dr Nic was formerly the VP of Technology at Engine Yard, one of the original Platform as a Service companies which supported over 2000 companies on AWS. He is now CEO of Stark & Wayne, the consultancy for companies that love Cloud Foundry. In the two roles over the last 3 years he has spoken with authority at over 20 conferences around the world.

Dr Nic has given many talks on running Cloud Foundry with BOSH and on BOSH itself. He is also one of the most active participants of all three Cloud Foundry community mailing lists. Now, a growing number of companies are choosing Stark & Wayne to setup, support and operate their internal Cloud Foundry.

He's Australian and thinks he's very funny. Now living in the Bay Area, in disguise as a software person.

Jared Wray

Jared Wray
Founder & CTO, Tier 3

Jared Wray is founder and CTO of Tier 3. Jared founded Tier 3 in 2006 and today is the visionary architect of the company's enterprise-class cloud management platform. To enable customers moving to IT as a Service, Jared has architected Tier 3’s cloud with advanced automation, orchestration, and fabric services. As the originator of the Iron Foundry open source PaaS project, Wray is a thought leader in the evolution of enterprise cloud services. A serial entrepreneur, Wray previously founded Dual, an interactive development firm with clients such as Microsoft and Nintendo. Jared is a popular industry speaker and has appeared this year at Interop, Cloud Connect, Cloud Expo and the Seattle Cloud Fair as well as being an invited guest speaker to enterprise IT departments and developer meet ups.

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